From Muybridge to Avatar - animation timeline

1878

“Horse in Motion”

Edward Muybridge
B. 9^th April 1830. Kingston, Surrey, England.
D. 8^th May 1904. Kingston, Surrey, England.

1878 - 1880

“Study in Human motion”

Thomas Eakins
B. 25^th July 1844, Philadelphia, USA.
D. 25^th June 1916, Philadelphia, USA.

1891

"Dickson Greeting" using the Kinetoscope

William K. Dickson
B. 3^rd August 1860, France.
D. 28^th September 1935, England.

Thomas Edison
B. 11^th February 1847, USA.
D. 18^th October 1931, USA.

1892

“Pauvre Pierot”

Emile Reynaud
B. 8^th December 1844, France.
D. 9^th January 1918, France.


1900

“Le Livre Magique” (The Magic Book)

Georges Melies
B. 8^th December 1861, France.
D. 21 January 1938, France.


1906

“The Humorous Phases of Funny Faces”

James S. Blackton
B. 5^th January 1875, Yorkshire, England.
D. 13^th August 1941, USA.

1907

“The Teddy Bear”

Edwin S. Porter
B. 21 April 1870
D. 30 April 1941


1908

“Fantasmagorie”

Emile Cohl
B. 4^th January 1857, Paris, France.
D. 20^th January 1938, France.

1910
“Battle of the Stag Beetles”

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Ladislow Starewicz
B. 6^th August 1882, Russia.
D. 28^th February 1965, France.


1911
“Gertie the Dinosaur”


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Winsor McCay
B: 26th Sept 1867, Spring Lake, Michigan, USA.
D: 26th July 1934, Brooklyn, New York, USA


1913

“The Artists Dream”

John R. Bray

B. 25^th August 1879
D. 10^th October 1978.

1916 – 1917

“Rotoscope Patent”

“Koko the Clown”

Max Fleischer
B. 19^th July 1883, USA.
D. 11^th September 1972, USA.

1917
“The Pied Piper of Hamlin”
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Lotte Reiniger
B. 2^nd June 1899, Germany.
D. 19^th June 1981, Germany.


1919

“Feline Follies”
Felix the Cat


1925

“The Lost World”

Willis O’Brien
B. 2^nd March 1886, USA.
D. 8^th November 1962, USA.

1928

“Steamboat Willie”

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 Walt Disney
B. 5th December 1901, USA.
D. 15^th December,1966, USA.


1949

“Mighty Joe Young”

Ray Harryhausen
B. 29^th July 1920

1949 
“Begone Dull Care"

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Norman McLaren
B. 11^th April 1914, Scotland.
D. 26^th January 1987, Canada.



1982
“Dimensions of a dialogue”

http://paul-lavey.blogspot.com/2011/03/jan-svankmajer-review.html
Jan Svankmajer
B. 4^th September 1934, Czechoslovakia.


“The Snowman”

http://paul-lavey.blogspot.com/2011/03/raymond-briggs-review.html
Raymond Briggs
B. 18^th January 1934, Wimbledon, London, England.

1985
First CGI Character

 “Stained glass Knight” from Young Sherlock Holmes
Industrial Light and Magic

1986
“Streets of Crocodiles”


http://paul-lavey.blogspot.com/2011/03/quay-brothers-review.html
The Quay Bros.
B. 17^th June 1947, Pennsylvania.

1992
“The Tune”


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Bill Plympton
B. 30^th April 1946, USA.

1995


“Bullet Time” invented

The Matrix

1995


First computer generated feature length film.

“Toy Story”


2010


Highest grossing 3D film of all time

“Avatar”